L2 Security
- Excellent communication skills.
- Provide L2 support for complex security incidents, escalations, and high‑severity outages across multi‑vendor firewall environments.
- hands‑on expertise with Cisco FTD/FMC, including IPS and application control policies, NAT, VPN, SSL decryption, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, SD‑WAN, Auto‑VPN, content filtering, and cloud-managed security operations.
- Advanced configuration and troubleshooting of Fortigate firewalls, including policies, NAT, IPS, SSL inspection, SD‑WAN, and central management via FortiManager & FortiAnalyzer.
- Skilled in Palo Alto Networks firewalls (App‑ID, User‑ID, Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, NAT, Global Protect, Panorama).
- Expert-level support for Sophos XG/UTM firewalls, ATP, web/app filtering, and VPN technologies.
- Strong working knowledge of Checkpoint, Smart Console, IPS, identity awareness, clusterXL, and policy optimization.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of IPSec/SSL VPN, inter‑site connectivity, certificate issues, and complex security policies.
- Conduct in-depth packet capture & traffic flow analysis using tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, and vendor-specific debugs.
- Experience with IDS/IPS tuning, threat signatures, false‑positive reduction, and security event correlation.
- Implement and optimize security policies, micro-segmentation, and Zero Trust architecture principles.
- Work closely with SOC, network, and cloud teams on threat investigations, RCA, and permanent corrective actions.
- Execute firewall upgrades, migrations, rulebase reviews, and best-practice compliance (NIST, ISO 27001).
- Create and maintain detailed documentation, runbooks, topology diagrams, and change control packages.
- L2 Level support continuous improvement of security operations
Data Network - Routing & Switching,Cisco Routers,Cisco Switches,Juniper Switches,Wireless,CCNA,Firewalls,Palo Alto Firewall,Fortigate Firewall,Meraki
